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DOJ Catch of the Week -- A Plus Home Health Care

Posted  09/19/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to Fort Lauderdale based A Plus Home Health Care Inc.  On Wednesday, the home health care company -- and its owners, Tracy Nemerofsky and her father, Stephen Nemerofsky -- agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle charges A Plus paid spouses of referring physicians for sham marketing positions to induce patient referrals. ...

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Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 19, 2014

Posted  09/19/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team GlaxoSmithKline fined $490M by China for bribery -- The record penalty comes from a Chinese court verdict delivered after a one-day trial finding the pharmaceutical giant guilty of paying bribes to doctors and hospitals to promote GSK products.  BBC Three patient recruiters sentenced for roles in kickback scheme -- Patient recruiters for Trust Care Health Services in Florida...
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TAF Whistleblower of the Year -- Halifax Whistleblower Elin Baklid-Kunz

Posted  09/18/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The whistleblower advocacy and education group Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF) just had their fourteenth annual conference in Washington. And in what has become a highlight of the three-day event, the organization made its annual Whistleblower of the Year award. This year's winner is Elin Baklid-Kunz. She is the long-time employee of Halifax Health Medical Center who exposed the...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark,

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The Growing Problem of Drug Abuse by Seniors

Posted  09/18/14
By Jason Enzler Drug abuse and misuse by the older generation is on the rise, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. And the forecast predicts things may get worse. The problem appears to be two-fold: addiction and misuse. On the addiction side, experts are concerned that seniors are receiving powerful opiates and anti-anxiety medications without adequate monitoring to identify when patients...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

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Holder Calls for Larger Whistleblower Awards

Posted  09/18/14
By Marlene Koury Attorney General Eric Holder wants to raise the award limits for Wall Street whistleblowers, citing the need to provide greater incentives to blow the whistle. In a speech he gave yesterday at New York University, Holder said whistleblowers provide critical information to investigators in prosecuting cases, but the incentives provided to certain whistleblowers are simply insufficient. Holder's...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers,

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September 18, 2014

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that 46 states and the District of Columbia have reach a settlement agreement with Minnesota-based company Medtronic to resolve claims under the False Claims Act that Medtronic improperly induced physicians to recommend Medtronic devices to treat cardiac rhythmic disease. New York led a national team composed of members from Oregon, Texas and California to negotiate the settlement. The federal government settled its matter in May of this year. The agreement requires Medtronic to pay the settling states $362,362 which will go to those states’ Medicaid programs. The matter was brought by a whistleblower, Adolfo Schroeder. NYAG

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Medical Devices and DME, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

September 17, 2014

The CFTC issued an order settling charges against Sean F. McCabe, a resident of Sunny Isles, Florida, and his company, WorldPMX, Inc., for engaging in illegal, off-exchange precious metals transactions and for operating WorldPMX as an unregistered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM).  The order requires McCabe and WorldPMX jointly to pay restitution totaling $1,048,807 and a civil monetary penalty of $140,000, and imposes permanent registration and trading bans on McCabe and WorldPMX.  CFTC

Tagged in: Regulatory Violations,

Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 16, 2014

Posted  09/16/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Episcopal Ministries to the Aging settles Medicare fraud charges --  The nonprofit Maryland corporation agreed to pay $1.3 million to resolve allegations that it caused the submission of false claims for unnecessary health care services.  DOJ AgFeed settles accounting fraud case – The Chinese animal-feed and hog-production company has agreed to pay $18 million to settle SEC...
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Whistleblower Spotlight -- Saudi Arabia's Twitter Whistleblower @mujtahidd

Posted  09/16/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" shines on the unidentified individual who goes by the Twitter handle @mujtahidd. With more than 1.5 million followers, he appears to be on a one-man crusade to expose corruption in and bring transparency to this historically tight-lipped desert kingdom of 28 million people. Choosing a moniker which in Arabic translates into "an authoritative...

Tagged in: Whistleblower Spotlight and Interviews,

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September 16, 2014

The CFTC has revoked the registrations of  SAC LLC and SAC LP for convictions upon guilty pleas to felony charges of wire fraud and securities fraud.  CFTC
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